Agriculture - Dairy & Livestock

Upcoming Events:    2009 Milking Systems Seminar -- November 17 - Liberty Hall - Registration
                                    2010 Outagamie County Fair Dates -- July 27 to August 1, 2010

Goals:

• All producers will have access to the latest technology and research to improve their ability to produce profitability and maintain their lifestyle.
• Emphasis will be placed on helping people reach their goals and dreams.

Program Emphasis:

• Quality Milk
• Dairy Herd Management
• Farm Management and Human Resource Education

2009 Ag Forage Council Meeting - Presentation (42 pages, 933 KB)

Feedlot Balancer - The UWM Feedlot Ration Balancer is a program designed to assist beef producers in balancing rations that will meet the requirements of his or her cattle utilizing the feedstuffs available to their operation.

FedVal4 - Shortcut to Spreadsheet

Find price of the following referenced feedstuffs and enter in the top box just right of the products name.  These feedstuffs are blood meal and urea price per ton; corn price per bushel; tallow, feed lime, and dicalcium phosphate per cwt.

The Spreadsheet will figure all the products in the book and give you equal price based on referenced feedstuffs. If your price is above referenced price it is priced over market value, below the referenced price then it is a relative good buy.  If a product you would like to compare is not on the list you can insert a line and put in the products composition needed for comparison.  Make sure you copy a product line into the new area so it has the formula to use and replace the old name and data.

If you want to compare to 48% soybean meal, raise or lower the price of the blood meal until the bean meal price is at market value.  Then you can look at your price comparison to other products. 

Note:  FedVal4 compares on protein (UIP) TDN, calcium, and phosphorus.  A qualified experienced nutritionist based on comparative ration analysis would best determine limits of inclusion rates, and amino acid balance.

Related Links of Interest

• Agriculture Newsletter
• Chicago Board of Trade
• Corn Silage Drydown site
  Cow Cull Spreadsheet      
• Cost Comparison of Dairy Herd Diseases Spreadsheet
• 2004 Custom Rate Guide (11 pages, 293 KB)
• Dairy Cattle Feeding Issues with High Moisture Corn, Snaplage, and Dry Shelled Corn (6 pages, 93 KB)
• Dairy Workers' Training Modules Order Form (1 page, 544 KB)
• Dairy Workers Training Promotion (17 pages, 2.32 KB)
• DNA Testing: Can You Use It?  (1 page, 15 KB)
• Farmer to Farmer Corn & Forage List
• Field Loss Calculator, Verson 12 (21 KB)
• High Moisture Corn Harvest and Storage Considerations (58 KB)
• Hispanic Resources ( 13 pages, 300 KB)
• MUN (Milk Urea Nitrogen) Fact Sheet (1 page, 20 KB)
• National Mastitis Council (NMC)
• National Pork Producers
• Order Direct from The Babcock Institute Dairy Workers' Training Manual
• Recycling Silo Bags and Other Agricultural Plastic FIlmsFarming and the Environment (2 pages, 418 KB)
• The World's Best Milk Quality Website
• Tips to Reduce Costs and Usage Around the Farm (1 page, 15 KB)
• Understanding corn Test for Weight (65 KB)
• UW-Center for Dairy Profitability
• Weigh Risk of Leaving Standing Corn Through Winter (2 pages, 24 KB)
• Wisconsin Link (WMMB)

STAFF

If you have any questions regarding Dairy & Livestock in Outagamie County, please contact:

Zen Miller
Agriculture Dairy/Livestock Agent
Outagamie County - UW Extension
3365 W. Brewster St.
Appleton, WI 54914
Phone: 920-832-5119
Wisconsin Relay: 711
Fax: 920-832-4783
Email: zen.miller@ces.uwex.edu